Improvement in measuring-funnels



MEME JUL 41871 UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

ROBERT F FISHER AND GEORGE F. VALDRON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO GEORGE F. WALDRON.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEASURING-FUNNELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,580, dated July 4, 1871 antedated Julie 20, 1871.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ROBERT F. FISHER and GEORGE F. WALDRON, both of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Valve for Liquids, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this specication, in which- Figur-e l is a perspective view of a combined measure and funnel with. our improved valve applied thereto, and showing the upper part ofthe valve-rod and device for operating the valve in the position th ey occupy when the valve is raised off its seat. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the center of the same when the valve is down upon its seat.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in the valve which controls the passage from the bottom of a measure or receptacle to its funnel or outlet, and in certain mechanical devices for operating the same, and our invention, consists in a valve-plug placed within a tube rising from Athe center of the interior ofthe receptacle or point where it connects with the funnel or outlet, the valve-plu g bein g pressed down upon the valveseat to close the discharge-orifice by a spring, also inclosed within the tube, and the said plug being raised against the resistance of theispring to open the discharge-orifice by the pressure of the thumb applied to the outer end of a lever connected with the valve-rod, a hook or catch being employed for holding the valve-plug up from its seat instead of applying the thumb to the lever for this purpose.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use our invention, we will proceed to describe the manner in which we have carried it out.

In the said drawing', A represents the measure or receptacle into which the liquid to be measured is placed. At the center of the bottom of this measure soldered a conical spout or funnel, B, forming at the junction a discharge-orifice, a, which is controlled by a valve-plug, b, inclosed by a tube, c, extending vertically np within the measure A. The lower portion oi' the tube c is provided with openings 3 4 diametrically opposite, which communicate with the discharge-oritice and through which the liquid passes thereto.

jection, I, on the outside of' the measure.

I is the valve-rod or spindle, which passes vertically up through a cap, 5, at the top ofthe tube c, and thence centrally up throughthe measure to a point a little above its top, where it is secured by screw-nuts (i to the inner end 7 of a lever, O, which is pivoted at its center to an arm, e, proj ecting up from the side and over the interior of the measure. The outer end 8 of this lever is enlarged, and open at its center to adapt itself to the form and size of the thumb. It is the handle of the measure, through a slot, 1'., in which passes a rod, It, the upper end of which is secured to the outer end of the lever C, the lower end of the rod k terminating in a hook, 9, which is intended, when desired, to be caught over a pro- Surrounding the valve-rod (l, and inclosed within the tube c, is a spiral spring, m, the lower end of which bears upon the valve-plug b while its upper end bears against the under side ofthe cap 5 of the tube, by which construction a pressure is exerted upon the plug to keep it down on a wa sher at its seat, and the discharge-oriiice is thus tightly closed.

\Vhen the measure contains a liquid, and it is desired to allow it to pass down the funnel into a jug or other receptacle, it is simply necessary to insert the lower end ot' the funnel therein and press the inner end of the lever O down, with the thumb ofthe hand holding the measure, suiiiciently to compress the spring m, when the valve rod is raised, and with it the valve-plug b, oii its seat, thus opening the discharge-orifice and allowing the liquid to escape therefrom, through the openings i el in the bottom ol' the. tube, down the funnel into the jug or other receptacle. Then the measure, is of considerable capacity, and it is not convenient to hold it and keep the thumb pressed down on the outer end of the lever C, the rod 9 may be caught over the projection Z and the valve-plug be thus kept up oli' its scat to allow otA the liquid iiowing down through the funnel into the jug to be filled.

If desired, the base of the measure may be provided with an annular ring in order that the ring may serve as a support to hold the measure securely on the outside of the jug.

Instead of applying' our improved valve to a ineasuring-iunnel it may also be applied to abar rel containing liquorI of any description, to awa ter-tanklfor Water-closets, or in any other posiarranged and opera-ting substantially as and for tion Where it convenient and reliable vulve 1s rethe purpose set forth.

quired. fitness our hands this 31st day of October7 Whitt We elimini as our invention7 and desire to A. D. 1870. secure by Letters Patent, is- R. F. FISHER.

The tube 0 with its openings 3 4, in oombinn- Witnesses: GEO. F. VALDRON. tion with a Valveplug, b, spring m, valve-rod al, N. W. STEARNS,

lever C, hooked rod if, and projection Z,t11ewho1e W'. J. CAMBRIDGE. 

